Anyone need a used drill bit ?

**bomberman** · 4th April 2004

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...4&category=413

Bomberman

**GhettoMoose** · 4th April 2004

Ill buy it those wind tunnels are a breeze

**fireman2203** · 5th April 2004

i thought they had 2 of um and they started 1 at each end and met in the middle. I was told they just steered them into the walls at the middle and the blocked them in. Bit like the mines where the machines are just left at the pit face when they abandon the mine cos its too expensive to remove them. Anyone throw any light on this subject.

**eblaster101** · 5th April 2004

guy at the post office will be their for a while writting out a postal order for that thing.

**maverick_15** · 5th April 2004

Originally Posted by fireman2203

i thought they had 2 of um and they started 1 at each end and met in the middle. I was told they just steered them into the walls at the middle and the blocked them in. Bit like the mines where the machines are just left at the pit face when they abandon the mine cos its too expensive to remove them. Anyone throw any light on this subject.

i dont know if they left them there but the english and french engineers had an unofficial competition to reach the middle first. the english won.

**maverick_15** · 5th April 2004

Engineers used large Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs), mobile excavation factories that combined drilling, material removal, and the process of shoring up the soft and permeable tunnel walls with a concrete liner. After the British and French TBMs had met near the middle, the French TBM was dismantled while the British one was diverted into the rock and abandoned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

**KUNAL112** · 6th April 2004

WOW!! If only i had money to get that imagine the possiblities with that thing..........

**flumperino** · 6th April 2004

this thing was at 5 million yesterday - now 20k

loads of bids have been cancelled - most of the users have been booted off ebay now

**jackroo** · 9th April 2004

Do you think I could some how attach it to my Fiat Punto?

**Keva** · 9th April 2004

Originally Posted by fireman2203

i thought they had 2 of um and they started 1 at each end and met in the middle. I was told they just steered them into the walls at the middle and the blocked them in. Bit like the mines where the machines are just left at the pit face when they abandon the mine cos its too expensive to remove them. Anyone throw any light on this subject.

my dad worked down there and i asked him bout this and he said that the french had one of these tbms (tunnel boring machine) and the english had 1 and when they both met in the middile the french one did a nose dive and burried its self

**cncity** · 10th April 2004

also when they met in the middle wern't the tunnels out ??? i know u expect a bit over that distance but i`m sure they were well out of spec, as in half a tunnel from 1 side meeting half from the other.

( prob wrong lol )